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Hi Norfolk, your question regarding the suitcase from about 1946 is easy to answer. But only generally speaking. In a short period at the end of WW 2 a lot of companies produced simple things from war surplus. Suitcases made from aircraft grade aluminum were not uncommon. The appearance of the...

Yesterday the second room divider was finished. We needed four Saturdays to make one out of three pieces 50 year old corrugated epoxy glass resin sheet. To cut the sheets in the right dimension and to drill is a painful work. Fiber glass everywhere. First we used an angle grinder, but the small...

The last weeks we have finished our first corrugated aluminum room divider. But we decided not to show it, until we have good pictures. The item is too big and with his shiny surface very difficult to shoot. My own pictures did not give the adequate impression of his real quality. Some parts...

Hi Wes, yes, your work is a compliment for us. It is a pleasure to find our idea of an “aviation stool” realized in so different ways. And yours, with that wooden seat, is very special modification. And, very important for us, to get a feedback. By the way, in the 1940´s (if my age...

Last Saturday we made a couple of experiments to design the frames of our planned room divider. So we came up with another type. Instead of using the corrugated piece we tested to make a more simple model. A simple frame, some lightning holes – but what´s about the ends? They had to be closed to...

Although we are in holidays, (or, more exact, because we are in holidays and so have time to search for new stuff to fill our stock of material) we got five vintage (means partially damaged) aircraft doors. The seller (a textile dealer) offered these and some more parts but could (would) not...

The last two Saturdays, before holidays until September, we started with the construction of our corrugated aluminum folding screen. First we defined the dimension for our test version to reduce cutting scrap. Maybe in a later version we will change these dimensions, but at moment we mostly try...

Thank you, you will find our mail adress at our home page: [email protected] for any question. Regards Rolf

Yesterday we finished the last of our five Land Rover recycling stools and today I made a picture of them all in front of a 17 year old Landy. Because it is not good to see on my pics, two of them are original Land Rover Light Green, two are Marine Blue. We made each with a white seating, an...

The last Saturdays we worked on our Land Rover stools. And today the first one has been finished. We had started with the only orange door (see picture below), which came from an old total orange tow truck Land Rover. As you can see, there are some older colors beneath: yellow, blue, a little...

Last Saturday we finished our Porsche 911 stool project. But to make a nice picture we needed our local recycling company to be open and good weather. They recycle tires and so we got a perfect background for stools made of car parts. Porsche 911 stools

Hi Chim, yes, we remember our meeting at the aircraft fair very well and yes, you inspired us for the Landy stool … so send me a mail. Yesterday I drove back from Berlin, where I brought three of our corrugated objects (stool, side table and table lamp) to a four day design exhibition. On the...

Our last report was two months ago. During that time we worked as usual every Saturday. So why we made no post? I think most readers are mostly interested in the description of technical details and tools. But after so many years of working in our workshop we spent a lot of time to produce our...

After finishing the second corrugated metal side table at the end of February we started to make a second table lamp. We analyzed each part and tried to make it better or easier to build. Now each leg is identical and so the lamp has symmetrical luminous intensity distribution. To make it was a...

Last Saturday we finished the second prototype of our corrugated metal side table. That means, we needed in total four days to make the new one. But as usual in our workshop we divided the work. Me, I worked most time on some new stools. After a long period we got a few helicopter (BELL) pieces...